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Fri, Sep 08
|Virtual (Zoom link in confirmation email)
[Virtual] Podcast Discussion: How Retirement Changes Your Identity
How has your identity evolved after retirement? How do you respond when people ask "what do you do"? Join us in discussing a podcast that highlights research by Teresa Amabile, a professor at Harvard Business School, on how ending your work career affects your sense of self.
Time & Location
Sep 08, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Virtual (Zoom link in confirmation email)
About the discussion
How has your identity evolved after retirement? How do you respond when people ask "what do you do"?
In approaching her own retirement, Teresa Amabile, a professor at Harvard Business School, conducted research on how ending your work career affects your sense of self. She says important psychological shifts take place leading up to, and during, retirement. That holds especially true for workers who identify strongly with their job and organization. Amabile and her fellow researchers have identified two main processes that retirees go through: life restructuring and identity bridging.
Join us in discussing and reflecting on this podcast that highlights Teresa's research - ahead of this event, please listen to this piece: https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/01/how-retirement-changes-your-identity
Some questions we'll explore together:
- How has your identity evolved after retirement?
- What do you want your identity to be? How have you explored it?
- What is a work identity or dormant identity that you might want to "bridge"?
- [message us with any other sub-topics!]
Looking forward!